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- Subject: Re: So? Anyone have dcc yet? (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.002729.2318@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- From: MATGBB@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (BYRNES,Graham)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:27:29 GMT
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- In <KAUTZ.92Nov12132921@hunny.research.nj.att.com> kautz@research.att.com writes:
- [....]
- > Personally, I don't see the technical advantages of this format ---
- > analog cassettes are dirt cheap, and the sound quality on a
- > high-quality deck (eg, in the same $500+ price range) is similiar
- > (except for a bit of hiss); CD's players of all types are also
- > incredibly cheap, and recent advantages such as electronic memory
- > buffering eliminate the skipping problems for portable units.
- > Certainly pre-recorded DCC tapes will sound better than pre-recorded
- > analog tapes, but I doubt that they will cost less than CD's!
- >
- Just to amuse us all, I read down in soc.cult.french that MD is due
- for release in France 16/12 (thats 12/16 for the americans out there...):
- The prices qoted for pre-recorded MD's was 130FF (US$24.50) and 90FF
- (US$17) for blanks....
-
- > There is, however, a clear *marketing* advantage to DCC. In just a
- > few years, CD player technology........[cut]...
- > Now suppose the recording industry (manufacturers, record companies,
- > Stereo Review magazine, etc :-) all got together and decided to
- > promote DCC, and gradually eliminate CD's and analog cassettes.
- > First, everyone has to buy a new DCC deck. Then, the sonic
- > limitations in the format will lead to an endless series of real
- > improvements in the sound quality: so you've got the high-end of the
- > market locked into buying a new machine every few years. Even the
- > rest of the market will have to replace their DCC machines eventually,
- > since the complicated mechanisms, belts, heads, etc will simply not
- > last as long as (e.g.) that of a CD player. Next, you have eliminated
- > the dubbing "problem": high-quality dubbing, probably even for a
- > single generation, will be impossible, due to the losses entailed by
- > repeated compression and decompression --- much more securely than
- > with a serial-copy protection scheme. Next, I predict that we will
- > *never* see inexpensive dual-well DCC decks --- so you have simply
- > eliminated the low-end dubbing crowd. So everybody gets rich(er). Far
- > fetched?
- A frightening thought, but one of the great joys in my life was when Sony
- bought Columbia records, the champion of copy-tones and other rampant paranoia.
- Given that Sony have an obvious interest in avoiding the above (no royalties),
- at least their chunk of the recording industry won't go for it.
- I think we will get dubbing decks, that use the copy protection device
- cuurently in use for CC, ie lousy sound...In other words they will be badly
- made and have rotten analogue circuitry
- But digital dubbing decks?
- SCMS stops that...
- Graham
- > --
- > ---- Henry Kautz
- >
- > :internet: kautz@research.att.com
- > :uucp: allegra!kautz
-